Aero, the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, launches October 21 across 7 networks, with staked AERO earning all exchange revenue and buybacks to limit dilution — Aero

Tether says its wallet freezes cut Iran-linked stablecoin volume by 94% since 2023, hitting addresses about four weeks before US and Israeli sanctions, pushing back on Senator Blumenthal's report — crypto.news

Mt. Gox's trustee pushed the creditor repayment deadline back by another year to October 31, 2027, with about 34,000 BTC still left to distribute — CoinMarketCap

US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $526.6M on Monday, their biggest day in nearly a month, as BlackRock's IBIT drew $665.2M while Fidelity and Grayscale saw outflows — CoinDesk

Upbit listed Metaplex (MPLX) on its KRW market, with trading opening October 20 at 18:30 KST and deposits and withdrawals only via Solana — ChainCatcher

Bitget agreed to buy licensed Thai crypto exchange GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics from Japan's GMO Internet, entering Thailand weeks after a $388M hack, pending regulatory approval — Investing.com

France's National Assembly voted 38-37 to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps at the 31.4% capital gains rate from January 2027, ending tax deferral for MiCA stablecoins — CoinDesk

Hacker group FulcrumSec claims a 10.6TB data breach at TiDB database maker PingCAP, with Bitget and Pionex customer information reportedly among the stolen data — Breachsense

FreedomXMR, a new laundering service on Hyperliquid Core, has moved $20M+ tied to hacks and ransomware into Monero, with over 87% of inflows linked to illicit activity — ZachXBT

Swiss regulator FINMA approved the country's first Swiss-law retail fund investing directly in bitcoin, exempting it from diversification rules but requiring custody safeguards and loss warnings — FINMA

Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs objected to tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKX and ICE's OKXICE venue, lifting the list of objecting issuers to 16 — CoinDesk

Open interest in RWA perpetual futures grew from near zero to $9B in a year, now 14% of the total across five major venues as overall perp OI fell to $67B from $81B — Bloomberg

CME Group launched Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, with FalconX and GSR executing the first block trade, expanding a single-asset crypto lineup that already covers Solana, XRP and Sui — CME Group

Stablecoins move over $400M every hour on average, with most of the flow happening off-hours, outside the windows when traditional banking rails are open — The Block

Ethereum staking hit a record 43.8M ETH, or 35.9% of supply, growing for a sixth straight quarter even as the staking yield slipped to 2.63% from 2.81% — Bitwise

A Kazakhstan court barred Coinbase, BingX, HTX, BitMart, WEEX and Bitcoin.com from offering unlicensed crypto services inside the Astana International Financial Centre, though not nationwide — CoinDesk

LayerZero's Zero L1 mainnet and its first app lzATLAS go live on November 30, with three zones for EVM apps, trading and private payments each targeting about 2M TPS — LayerZero

Injective signed an MoU with Korean custodian BDACS to make its won-pegged stablecoin KRW1 the exclusive KRW settlement asset for RWA and tokenization on the network — The Block

Mastercard opened early access to payments made by AI agents, following pilots run with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare — The Block

OKX brought its Shield program to the US, covering account takeovers with up to $100,000 for users who enable its security settings and up to $500,000 in total — The Block

JPMorgan added bitcoin to its long-term capital market assumptions for the first time, projecting about 10% annual returns over the next decade — The Block